Plants
Angiosperms
General paleobotanical research
- An approximately Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) age rainforest is reported from the Herrin #6 coal mine in Illinois by DiMichele et al.
Fungi
newly named
Arthropoda
Crustaceans
Research
New taxa
Insects
New taxa
Fish
Bony fish
Cartilaginous fish
Archosauromorphs
Pseudosuchians
Pterosaurs
Newly named non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosauromorphs
Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Lepidosauromorpha
Plesiosaurs
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Mammals
Footnotes
Complete author list
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
References